Patriotische Phantasien

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In Möser’s collection of weekly papers,
Patriotische Phantasien (1774–76; “Patriotic Ideas”), he called for the national organic development of a state rather than a system of arbitrary laws imposed by a sovereign; J.W. von Goethe compared the
Phantasien to writings by Benjamin Franklin. Möser’s
Osnabrückische Geschichte (1768;...